I'll post on Sunday, unless we've got an interested player by then. Otherwise., I suggest starting without one and trying recruitment along the way.
I don't mind starting sooner rather than later, but will be out of town this weekend, and may not be able to post until late on Monday.
Can you run over where we are at again with our preparations as you see it. Also give the year and season. i just want us all to be on the same page after a long lay-off
What has happened so far...
Some young magi (Honorus ex Tremere and his magic owl friend Theron, Rabanus ex Criamon, Arturous ex Tytalus, Hildegard ex Mercere) successfully help Horst the Redcap from Fengheld ho had an accident in the black forest and escorts him there. The group is invited by Murion of Durenmar to explore sites for the foundation of a covenant. They travel to Trier and investigate a cellar containing a cramped ex-covenant and the ruins, and find stuff there (they also encounter a new magus, Carolinus ex Jerbiton, there who joins the party). They (except Arturous) then travel to the Westerwald to investigate another site. When they find trhe site after meeting some fairie (?), a distrustful old man who seems to know them welcomes them to the covenant of Waldstein. The situation escalates when Rabanus ex Criamon tries to cast a ceremonial spell which the villagers mistinterpret as a magical attack to kill them all. In the ensuing struggle, most villagers die, Rabanus is severely wounded by two arrows, the two huts are destroyed, and the old man uses a staff to turn into an oak tree. There is one surviving villager (and one who mysteriously escaped into the forest) who says that he is part of a small community that has always lived there. Honorus uproots the tree they leave and after reuniting with Arturous sail down the Rhine towards Kaub, the third potential site.
On the way, they encounter the Loreley, a singing fairie whom they attack (kill?) before continuing their travels. They become involved in the Kaub family's quarrels, but have a look at the island as well. They are offered the books and other items that the magi of the ruined covenant left behind there.
They return and report to Murion who promises her support (and that of Honorus' pater Stentorius of Fengheld, as well!) in exchange for their votes at tribunals concerning some issues until 1230.
She gives you
- 50p of silver (10 cash, 40 writs, accepted by theJews in all major cities)
- an Aegis casting tablet lvl20
- you get a total of 4 seasons to copy from the Great Library (no calf-and-cow limitation)
- strong support in securing the okay of the other covenants.
Just before our long break you seemed to have come to the conclusion to choose the Waldstein site.
I think this is a good point to restart.
I assume it's the beginning of the fall season 1220.
Tribunal is after spring 1221.
Looks like my attempt to recruit someone new has failed. I could retry again, but a 2 people game is really too thin.
Of course, since jebrick's been playing all along, if he doesn't want something so close to his concept, then I can go with something else. I am mainly offering to play this character so as to skip the char-gen development delays.
Still waiting for jebrick's comment. Did you pm him?
Yeah, he said it was fine, and I asked him to post his approval here. That was only a few hours ago, though.
You don 't need to offer them anything, but it might be interesting for you to reflect which side you are on.
Hildegard is a Durenmar Mercere.
jebrick's character is somewhat fengheld associated.
Who sent you? Irencilla? Verdi?
Sorry. Work is busting my butt this week. No time for much posting.
I approve a new player even though they are like Honorus. Welcome aboard Amul
Well, how about less "Irencila" and more "The Elder Gild?"
We could also say that her pater's covenant, Laguna Sententia, is a chapterhouse of Fendheld. They have a pretty turbulent relationship. Viscaria considers the way he treated her during apprenticeship to be nigh-abusive, whereas he feels he pushed her so she could become great.
Why are you there?
I must say I first suspected you of showing an interest in the elder gild because of the generous xp they hand out, but they do fit the concept. As we will see, Fengheld wasn't shy about dropping agent orange and some Napalm on the suspected Diedne site, so the Elder gild protested against molesting the fay and insisted on sending along a representative.
Get a fully modified char sheet of Viscaria over here, so I can see the changes in one spot and off we go.
Just to ask this meta-game question out loud:
The current Magi roster is 2 Terram Architects, a Gently Gifted Jerbiton and a Bonisagus Corpus maga. So why are we settling in the middle of the woods instead of in the island castle?
I understand the in-game events that led the characters to this choice, but from the meta-game perspective, it seems like the remaining/new magi would be better suited to the island castle.
From player perspective, I certainly don't object to being in the Waldstein, since it accents the portion of Lynchessa that most differs from Honorus. I just wonder if it is worth bringing up this point for discussion.
Because we could not guarantee that we would get it and waiting to settle it would be too long. We all liked Kas ( I think it was) Island and it would have been our first choice but he had to take the sure thing.
I thought I saw something somewhere about conjuring a Wizards Tower, but now I can't find it.
As I recall, the last plan was to try to build down, rather than up, but I can't find confirmation of that, either.
Do we have a construction plan?